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| Converting to gas: Antonio Guiteras power plant |
By CubaStandard.com, November 12, 2011
In what is expected to be a $25 million project,
the Basic Industries Ministry is close to signing a contract to convert the
Antonio Guiteras power plant to natural gas, foreign suppliers say.
The new plans for the 330-mw Guiteras, Cuba’s
largest power plant, come barely a year after a $5 million overhaul of the
heavy oil-fueled thermoelectric plant at the port of Matanzas.
Other power plants slated to switch at least partly
to gas are the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes plant in Cienfuegos, and the Este
Habana plant near Havana.
The conversion is part of a larger project to
switch aging thermoelectric power plants in central-western Cuba from domestic
heavy-oil to gas. In 2003, all thermoelectric plants in Cuba were converted to
burn the sulphur-heavy oil produced onshore in Cuba; however, the low-quality
fuel has put the aging power plants under strain and produced high levels of
wear-and-tear. Meanwhile, natural gas prices have dropped worldwide, as a
result of a boom in controversial shale gas extraction, making conversions
attractive. Also, Cuba expects to boost accompanying-gas production once
offshore oil is found in the Gulf of Mexico.
Central to the conversion project is the
Venezuelan- and Chinese-funded construction of a 2 million-tons-a-year
regasification plant at the port of Cienfuegos. Eighty-two percent of basic
engineering on the project has been completed, according to Venezuelan
partner PdVSA, and construction is scheduled for completion in late 2014.
Sixty-four percent of that plant’s gas production will be consumed by Cuban
power plants. The plant, designed to process liquid gas arriving on
tankers from Venezuela and other countries, will be operational in early 2015,
according to plans of the Cuban-Venezuelan joint venture that will operate it.
To supply Antonio Guiteras and other thermoelectric
plants with gas, a 312-kilometer (194-mile) pipeline linking the regasification
facility with the power plants must first be built. Construction of the
pipeline is expected to be completed by 2014.
Energas, a Canadian-Cuban joint venture, is
operating two combined-cycle power plants along the Northern coast near
Matanzas. The Boca de Jaruco plant has recently suffered shortages of gas
supplied by CubaPetróleo from a near-shore oil field nearby.
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